Design patterns have evolved to solve problems often encountered in software applications. The factory method design pattern and the abstract factory design pattern are both creational patterns.

Practical .NET Move Beyond Factory Methods with the Builder Pattern in C#/Visual Basic When your objects get sufficiently complicated to create, it's time to simplify your life by moving to the ...

This article discusses the strength and weakness of applying Dependency Injection (DI) with a variant of Abstract Factory design pattern. This approach is especially suitable for such scenarios as ...

Extensible applications allow you to add functionality without rewriting your application: you dynamically select the classes that make up your application at runtime rather than design time. I once ...

public interface Trace { // turn on and off debugging public void setDebug( boolean debug ); // write out a debug message public void debug( String message ...